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[RFC,6/9] drivers:char:nvram.c Change the copyright info.

Message ID 1290838879-11038-7-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com
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Justin Mattock Nov. 27, 2010, 6:21 a.m. UTC
Change the copyright info from Sun Microsystems to Oracle since Oracle now owns them.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>

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 drivers/char/nvram.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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Jiri Kosina July 8, 2011, 4:33 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote:

> Change the copyright info from Sun Microsystems to Oracle since Oracle now owns them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/char/nvram.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c
> index 166f1e7..33e8faa 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/nvram.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>   *
>   * Copyright (C) 1997 Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
>   * idea by and with help from Richard Jelinek <rj@suse.de>
> - * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sun Microsystems (thockin@sun.com)
> + * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Oracle and/or its affiliates. (thockin@sun.com)
>   *
>   * This driver allows you to access the contents of the non-volatile memory in
>   * the mc146818rtc.h real-time clock. This chip is built into all PCs and into

You can't just change other people/company copyright.

This will need Signoff from the original copyright holder at least.
Justin Mattock July 8, 2011, 6:54 p.m. UTC | #2
On 07/08/2011 09:33 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>
>> Change the copyright info from Sun Microsystems to Oracle since Oracle now owns them.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock<justinmattock@gmail.com>
>>
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/nvram.c |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c
>> index 166f1e7..33e8faa 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/nvram.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c
>> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>>    *
>>    * Copyright (C) 1997 Roman Hodek<Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
>>    * idea by and with help from Richard Jelinek<rj@suse.de>
>> - * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sun Microsystems (thockin@sun.com)
>> + * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Oracle and/or its affiliates. (thockin@sun.com)
>>    *
>>    * This driver allows you to access the contents of the non-volatile memory in
>>    * the mc146818rtc.h real-time clock. This chip is built into all PCs and into
>
> You can't just change other people/company copyright.
>
> This will need Signoff from the original copyright holder at least.
>

yeah I think somebody from oracle had already told me this the day I had 
sent these out. from what I remember here is the original thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/27/31

so somebody from oracle needs to claim this, and the rest of the kernel!


Justin P. Mattock
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/char/nvram.c b/drivers/char/nvram.c
index 166f1e7..33e8faa 100644
--- a/drivers/char/nvram.c
+++ b/drivers/char/nvram.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ 
  *
  * Copyright (C) 1997 Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
  * idea by and with help from Richard Jelinek <rj@suse.de>
- * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sun Microsystems (thockin@sun.com)
+ * Portions copyright (c) 2001,2002 Oracle and/or its affiliates. (thockin@sun.com)
  *
  * This driver allows you to access the contents of the non-volatile memory in
  * the mc146818rtc.h real-time clock. This chip is built into all PCs and into